Apology Not Accepted; Sony Boycott Remains

Submitted by Joshua Gay on May 3, 2011 - 11:54am

In mid-April, Sony's PlayStation Network servers were compromised and
over 77 million customers had their personal data exposed. Two weeks after
Sony learned of the breach, they issued a public apology. As part of
this, they also are offering a bribe they are calling the "welcome
back" program.

But Sony has not issued an apology to Alexander Egorenkov
(graf_chokolo) and George Hotz (geohot), whom they harassed and
threatened with extreme force for modifying their own PS3 computers.
Nor has Sony issued a statement that they will stop bringing legal
action against individuals that wish to modify their own PS3
computers.

Now, Sony is asking users to give up additional personal information
and control of their machines to Sony's DRM-encumbered network, in
exchange for accessing some multimedia from Sony servers for 30 days.

Sony's chief says that his number one job is in "making sure Sony can
regain the trust from [their] users."

Perhaps if he hadn't turned off his email account in response to
public feedback, he'd know what users actually want. How about
promising to stop suing users for installing software on their own
computers?